Historic, Archive Document Do not assume content reflects current scientific knowledge, policies, or practices. a*- 1 ! f 1920 - 1921 ARTHUR C. PERRIN 1112 N. E. 18th Street Portland, Oregon I exercise the greatest care to have everything true to name, and will replace free, or refund the money, on any stock untrue to name. If for any reason you are dissatisfied with the stock, when received, return it and your money will be refunded including any transportation charges you have paid. I want only satisfied custoijners. TERMS : Net cash before shipment ; 25 per cent deposit will hold winter orders until March 15th. 50 bulbs at 100 rate. 250 bulbs or cormels at 1000 rate, except as follows : No divided item less than 25 cents. No order less than $1.00. SHIPMENT: All cormels and bulbs f-inch and less are sent prepaid at prices quoted. Bulbs over f-inch at purchaser's expense (20 1-inch bulbs equal 1 pound; 10 IMnch bulbs equal 1 pound). Eastern orders will be sent as soon as danger of frost is past. Local and Pacific Coast orders can be sent at any time. Growing from small bulbs: You do not buy trees or berries of a fruit- ing size. If you plant a large bulb you dig a large bulb, possibly two, and a few cormels. The profit is the flower and the cormels. If you plant a small bulb you dig a large bulb and many more cormels. The profit is a medium size flower, many cormels and value of your bulb tripled or quadrupled by increase in size. The same principle applies to expensive as compared to cheap varieties. Take your pencil and figure it out. All stock offered subject to prior sale. Estimated quantities shown at left of the name. Gladioli Bulbs: ^luantity on hand and Quan- Size, 1000 tity Variety Inches 10 100 1000 Cermels 250 Arizona (Kundred) 3Z 0 l/^fo (p on $ 1.25 $ 2.00 1000 Blackhawk' (Kundred) .75 1.00 n 1 n "ri 750 Joe Coleman (Kundred) 6000 V2 and less V2 and less 1 ^ 0 1/^00 .25 2.00 2.00 5.00 /2 larB and less .50 4.00 700. Niagara V2 and less .15 1.00 1.50 4500 Panama V2 and less .... .75 6.50 .75 5000 • it Peace it 1/2 X % 1/2 and less 1/2 X % — 1.25 10.00 .75 6.00 1.10 aodot Pink Perfection V2 and less .15- •' i.io^;. ._ -lOOO* 1.50 it 1/2 X % 1.70 L- 1000 Prince of Wales >4.00 V2 and less 2500 it War 1/2 to 3^ , % and less .40 .15 3.00 1.10 10.00 1000 OAAA-- Augusta and Glory Holland (mixed) V2 and less Tl 1 C 0 .50 4.00 8000 Independence and Schwaben mixed . . it /2 ctllU. lt:ob , V2 and less .40 3.50 5.00 4.00 2000 Mixed small bulbs , % and less .50 .50 All stock offered subject to prior sale. Estimated quantities shown at left of the name. Culture of Gladioli PLANTING Gladioli may be planted any time the ground is in good condition. Large bulbs should be planted five to six inches deep. Smaller bulbs less, about three inches for quarter-inch. The roots go down; therefore ground should be well pulverized and enriched below as well as above the bulbs. No fresh manure should come in contact with the bulb. They should have full exposure to sun and will not give best results if planted in the shade or where the roots of trees or shrubber>^ sap the ground. Do not expect to get good results where you could not raise a good hill of potatoes. CULTIVATION Cultivation should be constant and may be begun by raking before the shoots appear. Do not let a crust form around the plants. Gladioli are good feeders and vill utilize large amounts of old manure worked into the ground through the season. Tlie new bulbs and bulblets are formed after blooming, so cultivation should be continued for five or six w^eeks after bloom is cut. If water is given, a thorough soaking once a week is better than a little once a day. A mulch of lavm clippings or other fine materials helps to keep the ground cool and conserves moisture but is no substitute for cultivation. Cultivation kills weeds. Proper cultivation conserves moisture. Cultivation enables the air to change the soil to plant food. Do not forget to cultivate. CUTTING In cutting, at least four leaves, better six, should be left on the plant to mature the bulb. Proper cutting is good for the bulb. Never allow seed pods to form unless you want the seed. Seed forms at the expense of the bulb and increase. Cut flowers should be placed in cold water. All wilted flowers, including seed pod, should be removed each day and stem shortened with a slanting cut. Do not crowd into a small vase. Keep vases clean. Set in a cool place at night, but never in a draught. Bloomed out tips make fine corsage bouquets. DIGGING After tops are killed by frost, bulbs should be dug and tops cut close to bulb. Dr>" for one or two days in the sun and separate bulblets from bulbc. Bulbs should be kept cool and dry in ventilated crate or basket. They vill keep well in conditions favorable for potato storage. Where ground does not freeze bulbs may be left in, but it is not recommended to do so. BULBLETS The little offsets found around the parent bulb at digging time are called bulblets or cormels. They are always true to the parent bulb, and bulbs that please you should be marked and staked that the increase may be saved separately, and your stock propagated from these. Contrary to many peoples notions and some published articles, gladioli do not mix by being planted together and do not run out. A mixture planted for several years wiW change its proportions by natural division and death of less hardy varieties. Bulblets should be kept in dry earth or sand during winter. Plant 100 to 200 to the foot in a trench the width of a hoe and cover tw’o to three inches deep. Ground should be in the best possible condition. Soaking tw^enty-four to forty-eight hours in tepid w^ater before planting improves germination. Sixty per cent is considered fair germination if planted unpeeled. An increased germination and greater growih may be secured by opening the outer shell planting separately in row's four inches apart, one inch apart in the row, covering one inch deep with tw'o-thirds sand and one-third dirt. Cormels treated this w'ay should not be planted until ground is w'arm enough to plant com. Peeling may be opened with small forceps or point of knife. Do not injure inner kernel. A thick- ness of old burlap spread over comiels helps germination by conserving moisture. It may be left on until they are w^ell up. Four to six weeks are required for cormels to germinate. I grow' the best named varieties and visitors are w'elcome throughout the season. More complete instructions may be had by stating your trouble and enclosing a stamp. Customers should get acquainted wuth THE FLOWTilR GROWER, a monthly magazine published by Madison Cooper, Calcium, N. Y. Send for sample copy. ARTHUR C. PERRIN 1112 N. E. Eighteenth Street Portland, Oregon